Away we went to seven of the Hudson Valley's special places. 

Day 2 of our summer institute, Place & The Digital Native: Using Technology & Social Media to Teach the Hudson Valley, featured field experiences -- extended field trips for teachers, historians, and environmentalists!

PHOTO CREDIT: @prtyprecpumpkin  

Staatsburgh State Historic Site hosted a staff-guided house tour plus an audio-video landscape tour of the grounds developed by the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College. 

Norrie Point and Beczak Environmental Center went mano e mano and compared real-time river data from HRECOS via video-conference. 

At Vassar College's Scientific Visualization Lab Molly Fanning of the Capital District Writing Project helped attendees tap their inner Martin Scorsese, making movies and using digital storytelling to improve student writing. 

The Half Moon welcomed 20 attendees aboard the field trip the floats! 

The Mid-Hudson Children's Museum, with support from a Poughkeepsie elementary teacher and the NYS-DEC's Hudson River Estuary Program, flexed its science muscles showing off its Star Lab, chemistry station, and HRECOS monitoring system. 

The Fishkill Supply Depot and the Van Wyck Homestead & Museum put attendees in a time machine (OK, not a real time machine) and took them back to the Revolutionary War. Records confirm the existence of hundreds of Revolutionary War soldiers in unmarked graves.

Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites gave podcast trail tours on the Roosevelt Farm Lane.

Here's a Flickr slide-show featuring scenes from the Gilded Age tour at Staatsburgh and the Roosevelt Farm Lane: 

THEY TWEET!

We're also busting with pride over our Twitter followers who have shared their institute-related tweets. Three cheers for @KatherKear, @CCHSNY, @prtyprecpumpkin, @SicilyZap, @NPS_HydePark, @amyvanzanten, @diverjoq!